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The week of October 20, 2007

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Theaters are going full spead ahead!

OPENING IN DC

As You Like It - Shakespeare's 1599 comedy contrasting the world of a king's court with a pastoral paradise opens at the Folger.

Barbara Cook - The Kennedy Center's new cabaret series kicks off with its namesake performer this Friday night.

bobrauschenbergamerica - The playlet by Charles Mee plays this weekend at the Corner Store on Capitol Hill.

Did Abe Lincoln Have A Gay Lover? - A play by David Brendan Hopes with an intriguing title will be presented next Tuesday as part of the Ganymede Fall Arts Festival at the Church Street Theatre.

Speed the Plow - Jerry Whiddon directs David Mamet's skewering of Hollywood at Theater J.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - William Finn's musical stops at National starting next Tuesday.

The Women of Brewster Place, the Musical - Molly Smith directs the world premiere of a musical by Tim Acito.

OPENING IN MD

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Olney Theatre Center hosts the youth company Act Two Performing Arts with Shakespeare's romantic comedy this weekend.

Antigone - The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival mounts Sophocles' drama in an adaptation by Bertolt Brecht.

Kindertransport - A dramatization of an unbelievably little known phenomenon of World War II, the work of the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany, opens at Annapolis' Colonial Players.

redshirts - Round House mounts the world premiere of a play about "race and academics in big-time college football" at the Silver Spring facility.

The Battle for Shallowford - An intriguing play set on the night of Orson Welles' famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast opens in Bowie.

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OPENING IN VA

A Beautiful Thing - Dominion Stage presents John Harvey's drama exploring the awakening of sexual identity.

Children of a Lesser God - The play about the relationship between a hearing and speech impaired student and her teacher opens in McLean.

Gershwin on Broadway - Pianist Leon Bates and vocalists Louise Toppin and Robert Mack perform from the Gershwin Broadway catalogue at the Center for the Arts in Fairfax on Friday night.

The Five Nights - The Washington Shakespeare Company continues its reading series of classical Sanskrit plays it calls "Devine Drama."

The Haunting of Hill House - An adaptation of the terror novel opens at the Aldersgate Church Community Theatre in Alexandria.

THE BUZZ

Theater Alliance opens the American Premiere of YOU ARE HERE by Daniel MacIvor directed by Gregg Henry and featuring Jennifer Mendenhall. The production runs April 1 - April 31. Order tickets by calling 1-800-494-8497 or visiting www.theateralliance.com.

Use The Buzz to reach the members of this incredibly vibrant theater community. For price and deadline information contact Teddie at Teddie@PotomacStages.com or 202-548-2708.

PICKS NOW PLAYING

In Ranked Order

t Tick, Tick ... Boom! - MetroStage
t My Children! My Africa! - Studio Theatre
t Titanic - Toby's Dinner Theatre - Columbia
t The Arabian Nights - Constellation Theatre Company